My Crush Also Has a Crush on Me!-Chapter 3 - : Compensation with a Candy

Fu Ying couldn't help but step forward, moving closer to him.

"Brother, Big Brother."

Shen Liguang lowered his head and stared at the little girl.

She wasn't tall, quite short in fact, with a bun on her head, standing upright, a quiet and well-behaved young lady from a respectable family.

Her eyes were pitch black and sparkling with clarity, harmless, blinking like stars.

Holding a lute in his arms, Shen Liguang thought of the antique beauty he observed when he rescued her from the fire.

She did not resemble the wild creature Fu Yi described, but more like a gentle and well-behaved young lady confined in the inner chambers.

Seeing Shen Liguang staring at her without speaking, Fu Ying's face turned red and she said softly while looking at his reddened back of the hand, "Brother, Big Brother, just now... thank you... your hand..."

It took her half a day to finish a sentence, and Shen Liguang couldn't help but let out a gentle chuckle, "Are you stuttering?"

"No, I'm not," Fu Ying licked her lips, slightly nervous.

"Ah..." Shen Liguang chuckled and nodded, "Then take your time."

Fu Ying held the lute tightly, looking down with her soft face and put effort into speaking clearly, "Big Brother, just now, thank you for blocking the hot soup for me. Is your hand okay?"

"Now you're calling me Brother? During the day at the bus stop, you were calling 'Young Master'..."

Hearing him say that, Fu Ying's face turned red all of a sudden.

"Young Master..."

Shen Liguang suddenly remembered, when he rescued the girl, she had whispered something faintly, now thinking back, it must have been 'thank you, Young Master...'

Shen Liguang licked his lips, amused by this special address, and smiled.

Watching too many historical dramas, perhaps?

"Is there something wrong?" His voice was tinged with laughter.

Fu Ying said quietly, with embarrassment, "I came to apologize to you. It really wasn't intentional; I just accidentally bumped into the table."

Shen Liguang stared at the girl's flushed face and seriously said, "You need to compensate me."

Shen Liguang was just teasing the young girl, but who knew she took it seriously.

"How should I compensate? I have some money? Is that okay, Big Brother?"

His voice carried a laughing tone, and Fu Ying always felt that his words were half-serious, half-joking.

"How much are you planning to compensate me?"

"I have fifty."

"...That's not enough."

"Then how much do you want?"

Shen Liguang thought for a moment and smiled roguishly, "At least a few hundred."

"That much..."

Fu Ying blinked her tea-colored eyes and gripped the lute tighter, "That's too much."

"Medical fees, emotional distress damages, lost wages, food expenses, add them all up, a few hundred, not much."

Fu Ying listened and frowned slightly, "That much?"

"Mhm, it's not enough just to talk, you need to provide the money."

He had a cigarette in his mouth, and his way of asking for money did not seem very proper.

Fu Ying said with slight embarrassment, "Big Brother, can we have a discount?"

"A discount?" Shen Liguang chuckled lightly, "I'm thinking of 'discounting' you in a bit."

"..."

Fu Ying bit her lip, bowing her head.

"I don't have money."

Shen Liguang paused, "Then what do you have that can compensate?"

Fu Ying immediately took out fifty yuan from her pocket and a piece of candy, opening her palm and extending it in front of Shen Liguang.

Shen Liguang gazed at the money and candy in her small palm and lightly chuckled.

Trying to bribe a kid with these things in a transaction with him?

Seeing that he did not take it, Fu Ying explained in a low voice, "This candy is really tasty, orange flavored."

The candy in the palm of the child's hand was wrapped in a transparent colored wrapper and sparkled brilliantly under the moonlight.

Fu Ying looked at him, waiting for him to take the candy from her palm.

But then, Fu Yi suddenly came over, pinched the candy from her hand, and thanked her, "Thank you, little sister. Big brother also likes orange-flavored candy."

Fu Ying: "..."

Shen Liguang's face showed regret as he watched the bewildered little girl and said with a smile, "Without the candy, the compensation has failed."

"What compensation?" Fu Yi raised his eyebrows, looking at Fu Ying, "Did she cheat money from you?"

Fu Ying: "..."

Fu Ying used to have a bad temperament and was disliked by her two older brothers.

Causing trouble, vain, rebellious, skipping classes, clubbing, fighting, she, a girl, did them all.

Everyone who heard the story of the boy who cried wolf knows that if you lie too often, no one will believe you even when you tell the truth.

Fu Ying explained feebly: "I didn't lie about the money."

Fu Yi was taken aback, he did not expect his little sister to be so sincere.

He noticed that the little girl seemed to have changed a lot upon his return.

There must be something fishy when things are out of the norm.

"Nice attitude."

Fu Ying: "..."

"Did you do something wrong?"

Fu Ying: "...No."

Fu Yi tilted his head, looking at her, obviously disbelieving: "Did you get called to school for puppy love?"

Fu Ying: "..."

"Being chatty during class and got called in?"

Fu Ying: "..."

"Did you swear at a teacher and they called your parents?"

Fu Ying: "..."

"Got into a fight and your parents were called?"

"..."

"Ah..." Fu Yi drew out his tone, laughing, "I forgot, it's the first day of school today, huh? Were your parents called because you didn't do your winter break homework?"

Fu Ying shrank a little, not expecting to have actually been guessed right.

She shook her head: "No, my parents weren't called."

Please, please don't reveal my embarrassment.

Saying it privately is one thing, but in front of others?

Does she not have any dignity?

Fu Ying stole a glance, wanting to quickly sweep over the man's face, just to get a glimpse.

To see what expression he had hearing her elder brother speak of her like this.

Just as her gaze shifted, it was caught.

The man was also looking at her.

Fu Ying immediately felt her whole body heat up, wanting to escape from there.

"Really?" Fu Yi questioned.

Fu Ying explained: "Because brother just blocked the soup for me, I saw that his hand was red from the burn, so I wanted to compensate him."

The little kid looked embarrassingly close to tears, her expression was truly pitiful.

Li Guang reached out and took the candy back from Fu Yi's hand.

"This is my compensation, why are you taking it?"

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Fu Yi raised an eyebrow: "Is fifty bucks not as good as this candy?"

Li Guang didn't bother with Fu Yi, holding the candy in his hand.

"Candy, brother has accepted it."

Fu Ying was in a daze, hugging the Lute, while the man was already preparing to enter the room.

Before closing the door, she still heard their conversation.

Fu Yi: "Coming back this time, the little girl seems quite well-behaved."

"Before, she was mischievous and wild to the extreme. My mom from Jiangnan, such a gentle woman, she didn't inherit a bit of it..."

"Hm? Is that so?"

Shen Liguang turned his head and glanced at Fu Ying.

Accidentally, they made eye contact, and Shen Liguang bent the corners of his eyes towards Fu Ying, smiling and saying: "Doesn't seem like it."

She quickly lowered her head, avoiding his gaze.

For the first time, she felt a strange sensation, her face seemed to burn like it did that day...

So hot, so warm.

Her heart in her chest was also jumping fiercely.

It, could it be sick?

Fu Ying covered her chest with her hand.

"You, you shouldn't jump."